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by cageface 5480 days ago
First, it's a bit late to bolt this on to the language now that mountains and mountains of libraries and applications have been written to use manual memory management.

Second, a lot of people use C++ because they need low-level control of memory use and can't tolerate GC pauses. If you're writing the kind of app in which GC is acceptable why not use Java or an even higher level language like Scala instead?